Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> Dnia 2015-09-17, o godz. 17:19:17
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> napisał(a):
>
>> Replying somewhere randomly with an idea.
>>
>> Since projects are now on the wiki, why don't we use that as the
>> canonical source of project members? It's machine readable, although not
>> so nice to have it located outside the repo/ldap.
>
> How about... because:
>
> 1. You can't list developers who are not subscribed on the wiki. I've
> asked for some solution multiple times, and so far people are just
> INVALID-ating the bugs and pointing fingers. Of course, it could be
> partially related to the fact that we still don't have any SSO for
> Gentoo services, and have to ask people to sign up manually everywhere.

I'd have to dig up whether we actually took a vote, but I'm pretty
sure the council doesn't consider this a problem.  If people want to
contribute, they can sign up for the wiki.  It isn't like it is one of
those even non-FOSS tools.

However, I think the rest of your concerns are valid, especially the
concern about being able to include non-devs on aliases (whether you
consider them "members" or not).  I don't have a problem with asking
them to sign up on the wiki, but we'd need to change the templates/etc
so that they can still be listed somewhere on the project.  And of
course somebody has to build it.

-- 
Rich